River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-10
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURES.

March 2-This was dull day In the legis~
lature, the Senate doing nothing outside
of routine work The House passed two
bills received from the Senate, appropriat-
ing 500 for a new science hall for the
State University. and requiring a petition
OF one half the free holders of a county to
institute proceedings for county seat re-
movals where a county seat has been in one
place 10 years. and county buildings Of the
value OF SlO, GOO erected
MARCH 3-The Senate passed the House
bill making it crime for any architect to
draft dangerous, faulty plans for public
buildings, or for any builder to erect such
structures without conforming to the build
ing laws The bill passed both houses to
annex the village of BAY View to the city of
Milwaukee. The Senate adopted the reso-
luton proposing an amendment 10 the state
constitution making the oldest member in
continuous service on supreme bench ex-
ofiicio chief justice. Bills were killed to
abolish farmers institutes, and to prohibit
the leasing of convict labor.
In the House bills were passed to create a
superior court in Milwaukee; raising the
age OF consent TO Is years; increasing annual
appropriations for farmers institutes from
S5,OOO To $4,000, and repeating the law com
pelling railway trains TO stop at railroad
crossings if the companies will provide
means for prevention of accidents by the
state Railway commissioner. The bill was
killed to decrease the | mill school tax to
one-half mill.
MARCH 4-The Senate did nothing of no
able import to-day. In the House the com
mittee on labor and manufactures rendered
an adverse report on several bills (which
have been introduced to prohibit the leasing
of convict labor. II is argued that Wiscon
hplnra "a action ~,
the abolition of the contract convict labor
should first ascertain some suitable way to
keep conVlcts in constant employment. To
this end it advised that thorough investiga-
ton into the convict labor question and ex-
animation of its operation in other states of
the system of employment where leasing of
convict labor is prohibited. Both Houses
adjourned over TO Monday.
MARCH I'm the Senate the following bills
passed Prohibiting over issuance providing
hard labor for prisoners in county
jails; fixing standard measure for cram
berry barrels: authorizing the construction
of a bridge across the Mississippi river at
the city of Winona, Mimi. and for the ac-
quring of lands for approaches thereto :.
authorizing the state board of supervision
of charitable reformatory and peual insti-
buttons TO license the building of railway
spur tracks. Securing to children the ben
eft of an elementary education; providing
the qualifications to be required Of teachers
receiving certificates of different grades
increasing the appropriation for carrying
on the farmers institutes from 5000 to
$4,000.
Gov. Rusk sent TO the House the following
vetoes OF the bill to authorize the official
acts of e.. Z. Larkin, notary public of Lin
coin county, performed while he held no
commission on the ground that the bill
proposed t9 esta 5lish bad precedent; and
the bill to legalize the act of the county
board of Rock county in increasing the an-
nual salary of the district attorney of Rock
county from $500 TO $1,000 on the ground
that it was in the line Of special legislation
and therefore unconstitutional A bill was
passed providing for the severe punishment
of persons selling incumberef real estate
without notifying the purchaser of the in
cumbrance. In committee of the whole a
number of bills were prepared for the thi rd
reading.